The United States welcomed the European Union’s draft resolution on information privateness as a essential subsequent step, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo mentioned on Wednesday, as the 2 events attempt to seal a information switch pact.
The draft resolution, Raimondo mentioned, “represents a critical next step to fully address” the considerations of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which in 2020 struck down the earlier EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework as a sound information switch mechanism underneath EU regulation.
“We are closely reviewing the draft decision,” Raimondo mentioned in a press release. “We are committed to working with the European Commission to implement the Data Protection Board and to facilitate the transfers of personal data that benefit individuals and companies in the EU and U.S.”
The European Union took a step nearer to sealing a knowledge switch pact with the United States on Tuesday when it issued a draft resolution saying U.S. safeguards in opposition to American intelligence actions had been sturdy sufficient to deal with EU considerations.
Both sides clinched a preliminary deal in March, encouraging hundreds of firms which had discovered themselves in a authorized morass after Europe’s high court docket struck down the earlier information switch accord in 2020 on considerations about U.S. intelligence companies accessing Europeans’ information. It was the second such court docket veto.
President Joe Biden adopted up in October with an govt order setting out new safeguards for the actions of U.S. intelligence gathering and making a two-step system of redress, first to an intelligence company watchdog then to a court docket with unbiased judges.
The European Commission’s justice chief Didier Reynders mentioned the draft adequacy resolution reveals that U.S. safeguards supply the identical stage of knowledge safety to EU residents as that underneath European regulation.
